LEND Accredited Home Lenders(Ipo) (MM)

Accredited Home Lenders Selects BEA and Blue Titan for Integrated Customer Portal WellFound Technology Helps Deploy Services-Oriented Architecture SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BEA Systems, Inc. , the world's leading application infrastructure software company, today announced that Accredited Home Lenders has selected BEA WebLogic Platform(TM) 8.1 and Blue Titan Network Director as the foundation for its information technology infrastructure and next-generation customer portal. The solution, implemented by WellFound Technology, is designed specifically for the mortgage industry and can allow Accredited Home Lenders to model and deliver a standards-based and adaptive application for mortgage processing. Accredited Home Lenders will deploy a multi-channel customer portal that models Accredited Home Lenders' mortgage process from origination through servicing of accounts to help mortgage brokers as they sell non-prime residential mortgage loans. By utilizing BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, a unified, simplified and extensible application infrastructure platform, Accredited Home Lenders now has the flexibility to access critical backend systems, such as automated underwriting and application processing, and quickly leverage existing systems and IT assets. "We need to build systems and processes that can match our growth and adapt to change," said Jim Pathman, chief information officer of Accredited Home Lenders. "We knew we wanted a standards-based solution for integration, and WellFound Technology tied it together for us into a services-oriented architecture using BEA and Blue Titan technology. As a result, we now have an enterprise-wide integration framework that can meet today's needs, and quickly respond to our ever-changing business processes." Blue Titan Network Director 2.0 is designed to tie the solution together into a services-oriented architecture (SOA) by delivering message-based security, reliability and lifecycle management. The combination of BEA and Blue Titan's technology can allow Accredited Home Lenders to build service-based applications that can enhance control, performance and manageability and, in turn, can create faster, more automated and efficient mortgage processing and servicing for its customers. The joint solution can also give Accredited Home Lenders' customers easier and deeper access to information pertaining to their mortgage processing. "Basing the WellFound Mortgage Integration Framework on BEA and Blue Titan technology allows us to offer a powerful IT infrastructure solution for our mortgage finance customers such as Accredited Home Lenders," said Paul Gain, CEO of WellFound Technology. "Service-oriented architecture design and integration projects are a strategic growth area for WellFound. It is encouraging to see forward-thinking companies like Accredited Home Lenders take advantage of the opportunity SOAs provide to rapidly meet changing business requirements." About BEA BEA Systems, Inc. is the world's leading application infrastructure software company, providing the enterprise software foundation for more than 15,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA, Tuxedo, and its WebLogic(R) brand are among the most trusted names in business. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 77 offices in 31 countries and is on the Web at http://www.bea.com/. NOTE: BEA, Tuxedo, and WebLogic are registered trademarks and BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA WebLogic JRockit, BEA WebLogic Platform, BEA WebLogic Express, BEA WebLogic Workshop, BEA WebLogic Java Adapter for Mainframe, BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic, BEA eLink and BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be the subject of intellectual property rights reserved by third parties. Blue Titan, Blue Titan Software, and Blue Titan Network Director and Blue Titan Fabric Services are registered and pending trademarks of Blue Titan Software. DATASOURCE: BEA Systems, Inc. CONTACT: Pamela Omura of BEA Systems, Inc., +1-408-570-8117, or ; or Brooke Chilen of Bite Communications, +1-415-365-0222, ext. 363, or Web site: http://www.bea.com/

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